UFC legend B.J. Penn has been ordered to keep away from his mom with no contact for the subsequent 12 months after a choose in Hawaii accredited a protecting order amid disturbing allegations of abuse and issues over the fighter’s psychological well being.
Penn’s mom Lorraine Shin initially filed for the protecting order again in Could after Penn was arrested by police a number of instances over only a few quick weeks. The preliminary allegations towards Penn included “excessive psychological abuse” with the previous two-division UFC champion claiming that his household had been “killed” and changed with imposters.
The order accredited by Decide Jeffrey Ng prevents Penn from having any contact along with his mom, which incorporates staying not less than 100 yards away from her residence or place of employment. He should additionally keep not less than 100 toes away from any impartial location and Penn is ordered to “go away instantly” if he occurs to run into his mom anyplace.
The one contact the 2 events are allowed to have underneath the court docket’s orders are via courtroom proceedings, when attorneys are current or if authorized paperwork are being served. The order runs via Could 26, 2026, which is one 12 months after Shin initially sought safety towards her son.
Within the documentation filed for the restraining order, Shin claimed she returned dwelling from a visit and located all of her belongings faraway from her bed room. Penn denied any involvement in lacking property. A couple of days later, Shin claimed her purse was stolen from a protected and that led to her making a theft report with police.
Shin later put in a lock on her bed room door together with safety cameras for the home however claims Penn took down the cameras and “he additionally put glue into my lifeless bolts that stopped me from opening my bed room door.”
Previous to submitting for the restraining order, Shin informed police she returned dwelling from a separate journey and located that Penn had allegedly put duct tape over her safety cameras and glue into the deadbolt lock on her bed room door to forestall her from coming into. Shin later accused Penn of stealing her mail and when she claims she discovered the mail at the back of a car that belonged to one in all her son’s associates, the 46-year-old fighter denied it was her mail and allegedly grabbed her arms and shoved her towards the automobile, which led to his mom screaming on the high of her lungs for her son Reagan Penn to assist her.
Penn was ultimately arrested and informed to keep away from his mom for the subsequent 48 hours, however Shin claims he returned to the house and he or she offered video proof as proof to police, which led to Penn’s second arrest in as many days.
“I imagine my son [B.J. Penn] is affected by Capgras delusional syndrome (a psychiatric dysfunction by which an individual holds a delusion {that a} pal, partner, mother or father, different shut member of the family has been changed by an similar imposter),” Shin informed police when submitting for the restraining order. “He believes I’m an imposter who has killed his household to achieve management of the household belongings.
“In the very best curiosity for my security, I ask the court docket for a six-month [temporary restraining order] and have my son ordered to get medical therapy or different supply of remedy.”
As of now, there are not any additional court docket hearings scheduled with the choose approving the protecting order towards Penn for the subsequent 12 months.
